November 14, 2002, Thursday

To the Editor: Re ''Forget the Files and the Folders: Let Your Screen Reflect Life'' (Essay, Nov. 7): David Gelernter offers a tantalizing suggestion of a ''universal information structure.'' Unfortunately, the rest of his essay is a diatribe to...

November 14, 2002, Thursday

To the Editor: Re ''Forget the Files and the Folders: Let Your Screen Reflect Life'' (Essay, Nov. 7): I suspect that many of your readers, ordinary citizens like myself who use a home computer for certain specific tasks like word processing,...

November 14, 2002, Thursday

To the Editor: Re ''Forget the Files and the Folders: Let Your Screen Reflect Life'' (Essay, Nov. 7): What began with a topical discussion of Microsoft's monopoly quickly degenerated into hucksterism. Despite the author's impressive credentials,...

November 14, 2002, Thursday

In a book titled ''The Educated Child'' published last year, William J. Bennett, the former United States secretary of education, addressed the blossoming industry of online learning with a raised eyebrow. ''When you hear the next pitch about...